Key Themes and Messages (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards

Ancient river created by Wagyl; Noongar name for Swan River

Serpent that created Bilya by splitting billion-year-old crust

Two parallel realities (Indigenous & colonial) coexist in place

Violence against Indigenous ways of knowing and being

Settler ignorance/obliviousness buffering Indigenous memory

Wagyl's creation = ownership; colonial changes ≠ true ownership

Fundamentally different & separate realities that can balance

Indigenous concept of land as sentient, relational, with agency

Creation, Rupture, Overlay, Endurance, Hope

Genuine acknowledgement of both realities & Indigenous sovereignty